Terry Davis at the OSCE Permanent Council: ''Our shared values provide unity of purpose for the activities of both our organisations''[07/12/2004]

''The Council of Europe and the OSCE share the common goal of making our continent a better, safer and fairer place'', the Secretary General stressed in his speech before the OSCE Permanent Council on 7 December in Sofia. ''Recent events in Ukraine tell us that democratic transformation requires much more than the formal trappings of the electoral process. Constitutions and legislation can create democratic institutions but values and tolerance are needed to create democratic citizens,'' he said. The Secretary General also met President of the Republic Georgi Parvanov, Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Solomon Passy.
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